Two years in a row with two different manuscripts.
Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Unpublished Manuscript Award 2006 - Finalist!
I submitted my visionary manuscript, The Key, to the Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Unpublished Manuscript Award 2006. It is a very different manuscript to the one that made the short list last year. And it came as a huge surprise to receive an email today to say that They Key has been short-listed!
I was, and still am, extremely excited--to the point I am finding it hard to think straight!
To be short-listed two years running with two different manuscripts is hugely satisfying. And I am hoping that this will help to persuade publishers that I am worth taking a chance on!
If nothing else it will demonstrate that I am committed to my work and capable of producing. I am not a one book wonder.
I am currently working on a new novel which I hope to enter into next years award, providing I can keep it within the word count and finish it in time. If I can achieve that I believe that that work, too, has a good chance of making the short-list.
Where I sit, here at my desk, I look up to see the framed finalist certificate and merit award certificate from last year, for Dimension's Doorway, and that has served to inspire me. After August I will be able to look up and see yet another framed finalist certificate. It would be nice to win the big award and the cash, but I honestly do not mind if I don't win. To be a finalist two years running with two different manuscripts says a lot!
Writing is such a solitary activity, fraught with self-doubts, fears, and rejection letters. To be recognized, to have your peers say 'this is a good', well, huge sigh of relief more than anything else.
The awards function is 18th August. I will keep you posted.
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The second book in the telepathy series. It contains more ways for the up and coming telepathist to experiment with the sending and receiving of thoughts and is at the end of the story about future telepathy people found unexpectedly chosen by the go
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